Chapter VI

Hills of Faery: The Little People of the Mist.

Legends of the _Patu-paiarehe_--The Fairies of the Port and Peninsula Hills--Mountains of Enchantment--“The Red Cloud’s Rest”--The Fairies and the Mutton-birds--The Maero of the Woods--Mount Pleasant and its _Tapu_ 61

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Map of Lyttelton Harbour and Port Hills-Akaroa,
Summit Road

Hone Taare Tikao, the Narrator of the Legends _Frontispiece_

The Seven Sleepers 5

Te Tihi o Kahukura, Castle Rock 9

Te Moenga o Wheke, Giant Tor 10

Witch Hill and the Giant’s Causeway 13

Orongomai, the Place of the Voices 15

View from Cass Peak 17

Whaka-raupo, Lyttelton Harbour and Quail Island 21

Te Heru o Kahukura, Sugarloaf 25

“The Sign of the Kiwi” Rest House and Marley’s Hill 27

The Port Hills south-west of Dyer’s Pass 31

The Old Maori Church at Rapaki 33

Whaka-raupo, Lyttelton Harbour from Kennedy’s Bush 35

Old Church Bell at Rapaki 40

Rapaki Village and Tamatea’s Breast 43

In a Rapaki Garden 47

Witch Hill 53

The Summit Road, overlooking Governor’s Bay 55

Te Poho-o-Tamatea, or Tamatea’s Breast 59

Rhodes’s Monument, Home of the Fairies 63

Kennedy’s Bush, Cockayne’s Cairn, and Cass Peak 67

Through the Devil’s Staircase 70

Hinekura 73

MAORI FOLK-TALES OF THE PORT HILLS